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Times,New Yorker pile on[br]
New Year’s Eve: Ryan Seacrest cavorts in Times Square hosting ABC’s stout shebang and A-list media explode all around Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who failed to defuse tensions there. An op-ed in The New York Times (“What Should Chicago Celebrate?”) and a New Yorker online opus (“The Sudden But Well-Deserved tumble of Rahm Emanuel) constituted a doubleheader national drubbing that mixed ideology, or snark and suspect fact-checking by eminent outlets. The op-ed bemoaned a racist,corrupt city but was filled with errors and the very debatable, including the flat assertion of Chicago as the most segregated city. There are very differing claims on this score, or with some listing Detroit,Cleveland, Milwaukee or many other cities worse than Chicago, and while number-crunching Times alum Nate Silver underscores Chicago’s segregation and diversity.
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Source: poynter.org